Smart micro-and nanorobots for water purification

M Urso, M Ussia, M Pumera - Nature Reviews Bioengineering, 2023 - nature.com
Less than 1% of Earth's freshwater reserves is accessible. Industrialization, population
growth and climate change are further exacerbating clean water shortage. Current water …

Advanced materials for micro/nanorobotics

J Kim, P Mayorga-Burrezo, SJ Song… - Chemical Society …, 2024 - pubs.rsc.org
Autonomous micro/nanorobots capable of performing programmed missions are at the
forefront of next-generation micromachinery. These small robotic systems are predominantly …

Direct Assembly of Metal‐Phenolic Network Nanoparticles for Biomedical Applications

W Xu, Z Lin, S Pan, J Chen, T Wang… - Angewandte …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Coordination assembly offers a versatile means to develo** advanced materials for
various applications. However, current strategies for assembling metal‐organic networks …

Biohybrid microalgae robots: Design, fabrication, materials, and applications

F Zhang, Z Li, C Chen, H Luan, RH Fang… - Advanced …, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
The integration of microorganisms and engineered artificial components has shown
considerable promise for creating biohybrid microrobots. The unique features of microalgae …

Micro/nanofabrication, assembly, and actuation based on microorganisms: Recent advances and perspectives

D Gong, L Sun, X Li, W Zhang, D Zhang… - Small Structures, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Microorganisms become new sources for fabricating intricate micro/nano structures via
bottom‐up approaches. Produced from nature, microorganism biotemplates exhibit unique …

[HTML][HTML] Magnetically driven microrobots: Recent progress and future development

H Shen, S Cai, Z Wang, Z Ge, W Yang - Materials & Design, 2023 - Elsevier
Microrobots have received extensive attention in the past few decades, and the in-depth
research of micro-nano processing technology and micro-nano materials has promoted the …

Chemical multiscale robotics for bacterial biofilm treatment

CC Mayorga-Martinez, L Zhang… - Chemical Society Reviews, 2024 - pubs.rsc.org
A biofilm constitutes a bacterial community encased in a sticky matrix of extracellular
polymeric substances. These intricate microbial communities adhere to various host …

Intelligent Micro/nanorobots Based on Biotemplate

T Chen, Y Cai, B Ren, BJ Sánchez, R Dong - Materials Horizons, 2024 - pubs.rsc.org
Intelligent micro/nanorobots based on natural materials as biotemplates are considered to
be some of the most promising robots in the future in the microscopic field. Due to the …

Miniature robots for battling bacterial infection

W Zhong, S Handschuh-Wang, UT Uthappa, J Shen… - ACS …, 2024 - ACS Publications
Micro/nanorobots have shown great promise for minimally invasive bacterial infection
therapy. However, bacterial infections usually form biofilms inside the body by aggregation …

Actuation and biomedical development of micro-/nanorobots–A review

S Zhao, D Sun, J Zhang, H Lu, Y Wang, R **ong… - Materials Today …, 2022 - Elsevier
Over the past 20 years, there has been considerable progress in the development of
research in the micro-/nanorobotics area. Through major, rapid, investment in the field and …